Not who, but why

I’ve spent a long time trying to encapsulate the why behind my practice. What am I chasing? What am I trying to communicate? I’m obsessed with beauty, both natural and fabricated. And while there is no greater craftsman than nature, so often we reach to compete. I’m enamored with the landscapes nature has produced and by our pursuit to create places and structures beautiful enough to rest alongside them harmoniously. I love observing the conversations between nature and man, the dance their creations do with one another, and the fissures that spawn when man creates without deference to its creator. Nature always humbles.

Photography is not only educative for me in that sense but also meditative. My brain is a noisy and often scary place. Walking through places both familiar and foreign, camera at the ready, in search of that beauty helps center my mind. Beauty comes to me in many forms. Sometimes through dancing shadows on the crest of a dune, other times through violent waves at the dying of day. My goal no matter the subject is to convey awe. The awe that struck me on that day, in that moment. The awe that reminded me of my power and my insignificance. The awe that reveals the fleeting nature of pain. The awe that made me still.